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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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04 Sep 2004 03:11:30 PM |
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OT: Avishai Margalit |
Upping the ante
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1295979,00.html
Martin Jacques finds something missing in Ian Buruma and Avishai
Margalit's study of enmity towards the west, Occidentalism
Saturday September 4, 2004
The Guardian
Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism
by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
165pp, Atlantic, £14.99
This book seeks to account for anti-western attitudes. The authors use
the word Occidentalism to describe the phenomenon: "The dehumanising
picture of the west painted by its enemies is what we have called
occidentalism." They argue that occidentalism is the antithesis of
orientalism, which "made non-western people seem less than fully adult
human beings". It is odd, therefore, that their version of
occidentalism seems to get dangerously close to the orientalism they
abhor.
Martin Jacques
http://snipurl.com/78zl
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0312040126.11733e9b%40posting.google.com
Ian Buruma
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0403170307.599161f%40posting.google.com
Avishai Margalit
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